Todd W. Spake
Top rated Energy & Natural Resources attorney in Fort Worth, Texas
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP
Practice areas: Energy & Natural Resources
Licensed in Texas since: 1996
Education: Texas Tech University School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2025 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2007 - 2010 Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP
201 Main StreetSuite 2500
Fort Worth, TX 76102 Phone: 817-878-3592 Email: Todd W. Spake Visit website
Details 
Todd Spake is the chair of Kelly Hart’s Oil & Gas/Energy group and represents oil and gas operators and interest owners in his broad-based energy practice. Mr. Spake’s primary focus is on transactional matters, including the acquisition and divestiture of oil and gas producing properties, mineral interests and midstream assets, and the negotiation of joint development agreements, farmouts, hydrocarbon processing and sale agreements, water use and disposal agreements, seismic agreements, complex rural and urban oil and gas leases and surface use agreements, pipeline easements, wind power agreements, and sand and gravel development agreements.
First Admitted: 1996, Texas
Professional Webpage: https://www.kellyhart.com/attorney/Todd-W-Spake
Bar / Professional Activity
- Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Adjunct Professor, Energy MBA program, Texas Christian University, 2014-present
- Institute for Energy Law, Advisory Board Member
- Texas Tech School of Law Energy Law, Advisory Board
- Texas Tech School of Law Journal of the Energy Law Practitioner, Advisory Board Member
- Fort Worth Public Library Foundation, Board of Directors
- University of North Texas Health Science Center Foundation, Board of Directors
- AddRan College, Texas Christian University, Board of Visitors
Transactions
- Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of mineral interests and overriding royalties across thePermian and Delaware Basins, in numerous transactions totaling over $500 million
- Represented a group of privately held entities in their sale to a major oil company for total consideration of over $6.6 billion, involving over 275,000 acres of producing properties primarily located in the Delaware Basin within New Mexico.
- Represented a privately held entity in the acquisition of $80 million in producing minerals in Southeastern New Mexico.
- Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of producing oil and gas mineral and royalty interests in the Permian Basin for $100 million
- Represented a privately held E&P entity in the acquisition of oil and gas producing properties located in the Permian Basin for $70 million.
- Represented a privately held company in the acquisition of mineral interests and overriding royalties across the Permian and Delaware Basins, in numerous transactions totaling over $500 million
- Represented a privately held E&P entity in the sale of oil and gas producing properties in the Delaware Basin to a publically traded company for a purchase price of $855 million
Honors
- Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, 2020-2025 Energy & Resources, Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
- Best Lawyers in America®, U.S. News & World Report, 2008-2025 Oil and Gas Law, Oil and Gas Law, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Top Attorney, 360 West magazine Oil & Gas Law, 2017-2024 Land Use & Environment, 2017-2019, Top Attorney in Oil and Gas Law, 360 West magazine
- Top Attorney, Fort Worth Magazine, 2005-2024 Oil & Gas Law, Top Attorney, Fort Worth Magazine
- Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star, Thomson Reuters, 2007-2010 Energy & Resources, Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Thomson Reuters
- 40 Under 40 Award, Fort Worth Business Press, 2006
Educational Background
- Texas Christian University, B.S., 1992, 1992
- Texas Tech School of Law, JD, summa cum laude, Editor Law Review, 1993-1995
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- Speaker, TCU Ralph Lowe Energy Institute's Energy Week, September 2024, Speaker, Energy Week, TCU Ralph Lowe Energy Institute's Energy Week, 2024
- Speaker, "Purchasing Producing Properties," SIPES Symposium, October 2023, Speaker, Purchasing Producing Properties, SIPES Symposium, 2023
- Speaker, "Purchasing Producing Properties," WP Energy Conference, September 2022, Speaker, Purchasing Producing Properties, Whitley Penn Energy Conference, 2022
- Speaker, "Purchasing Producing Properties," AAPL Field Landman Seminar, February 2022, Speaker, Purchasing Producing Properties, AAPL Field Landman Seminar, 2022
- Speaker, "Implied Covenants in Oil & Gas Leases," Whitley Penn Energy Conference, 2021 , Speaker, Implied Covenants in Oil & Gas Leases, Whitley Penn Energy Conference, 2021
- presentation for Women in Energy luncheon, speaker, Potential Pitfalls in the Purchase and Sale of Oil and Gas Properties, 2018
- "Surface Use Agreements: Conflicts Between Severed Surface and Mineral Estates," AAPL Southwest Land Institute, April 30, 2013, speaker/author, Surface Use Agreements: Conflicts between Severed Surface and Mineral Estates, AAPL Southwest Land Institute, 2013
- breakfast presentation, speaker, Beyond the Ordinary Oil and Gas Lease, Fort Worth Club, 2011
- CLE presentation, speaker, Regulation of Urban Oil and Gas Drilling, Tarrant County Bar Association, 2009
- co-author, 3-D Technology Opens Legal Issues, Texas Lawyer, 2002
Other Outstanding Achievements
- Adjunct Professor, Energy MBA program, Texas Christian University, 2014-present
Office location for Todd W. Spake
201 Main Street
Suite 2500
Fort Worth, TX 76102
Selections
6 Years Super Lawyers
4 Years Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2025
- Rising Stars: 2007 - 2010